Crop Lines column: January USDA crop production estimates released

5:33 PM,
Jan. 18, 2014

Mike Rankin

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Mike Rankin

From a national and state perspective, the recently released USDA January Crop Report offers a pretty clear final picture of the 2013 growing season. It indicated that U.S. farmers produced 13.9 billion bushels of corn; down slightly from the November report, but 29 percent higher than 2012.

Corn grain yield was estimated at 158.8 bushels per acre, down 1.6 bushels from the November forecast but 35.4 bushels higher than the 2012 drought year average yield of 123.4 bushels. Harvested acres were up slightly from both the November forecast and 2012.